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| author | Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com> | 2023-05-15 16:53:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-05-15 16:53:58 (GMT) |
| commit | 98016f7c92aa4c1232c68bac1ed6646db31782ec (patch) | |
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[3.9] gh-102950: Implement PEP 706 – Filter for tarfile.extractall (GH-102953) (#104382)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst index dab4746..0064e07 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst @@ -1601,3 +1601,18 @@ line flag, or :mod:`sys` APIs. See the :ref:`integer string conversion length limitation <int_max_str_digits>` documentation. The default limit is 4300 digits in string form. +Notable Changes in 3.9.17 +========================= + +tarfile +------- + +* The extraction methods in :mod:`tarfile`, and :func:`shutil.unpack_archive`, + have a new a *filter* argument that allows limiting tar features than may be + surprising or dangerous, such as creating files outside the destination + directory. + See :ref:`tarfile-extraction-filter` for details. + In Python 3.12, use without the *filter* argument will show a + :exc:`DeprecationWarning`. + In Python 3.14, the default will switch to ``'data'``. + (Contributed by Petr Viktorin in :pep:`706`.) |